we live in a world someone else imagined
”Hardly. I don’t think there’s such thing as failing with something like this. There’s no... right way to grieve, especially for someone as close to you as the mother of your child.” Ronin smiled too, as Bastien reached down for the baby; the smile on Azrael’s lips, he knew, would probably be the thing to carry the Ascended through this. Still, the other man was right and his musing did pique Ronin’s interest; the Star waited with curiosity to hear what Bastien had to say.
And when the question did tumble out, his smile warmed and lit up his face. ”Well, I don’t think I had the most traditional experience of moving forward in that regard,” he said. ”If you remember, I was with Vanya for a time, in the stars. She pushed me off the edge of the sky and back down to Caido.” He laughed as he remembered it. ”So I was all but told to live, to love, to... do all the things she couldn’t do with me.” That wasn’t particularly helpful for Bastien, though.
”I do still love her - of course I do. And I always will. But... I couldn’t keep looking for something I didn’t have any more, with her. And Remi... it crept up on me, I think. We fell in love slowly, as friends.”
And when the question did tumble out, his smile warmed and lit up his face. ”Well, I don’t think I had the most traditional experience of moving forward in that regard,” he said. ”If you remember, I was with Vanya for a time, in the stars. She pushed me off the edge of the sky and back down to Caido.” He laughed as he remembered it. ”So I was all but told to live, to love, to... do all the things she couldn’t do with me.” That wasn’t particularly helpful for Bastien, though.
”I do still love her - of course I do. And I always will. But... I couldn’t keep looking for something I didn’t have any more, with her. And Remi... it crept up on me, I think. We fell in love slowly, as friends.”
the dark star
